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Forge’s phone rings a little before lunch. He smiles at it, which tells me that it’s Raewyn. She always calls us around this time, and the bakery mustn’t be too busy, or else she wouldn’t be able to call.

“Hey, baby,” he answers. I watch him smile even bigger as he waits for her response.

But then his face falls and immediately I know something is wrong.

My heart sinks and I get to my feet.

“When?” is all he says.

“What is going on?” I say, rushing over to him.

His face turns furious. Forge’s go-to emotion.

“What the fuck is going on, Forge?” I demand.

“We’ll be right there,” he says as he hurries toward the door.

“Forge!” I call out.

He ends the call and shoves his phone into his pocket, stopping to look me dead in the eye.

“Someone took Rae.”

Everything is a blur until we get to the bakery, where Trina is pacing outside the front door, tears pouring down her face.

“What the hell happened?” I ask as I hurry out of the car, Forge right behind me.

“I’m so sorry, I don’t know! She was taking out the trash, and she didn’t come back.”

“How do you know someone took her?” I ask.

“I was taking care of a customer when I saw a car speed by, the tires squealing. It caught a few of our attention. I had a weird feeling so I went in the back to check, and Rae was gone. The door was propped open with the rock and the barrel was still out there by the dumpster. And-and—”

“And what?” Forge barks.

“There’s blood…” She gasps, putting a hand over her mouth.

Fuck.

No.

We hurry into the bakery, through the back room and right to the door that’s still propped open. Forge and I hurry into the alley. Immediately, I spot the blood. It’s not a lot, but it’s enough.

“It’s hers,” I say.

I can smell it, and I know Forge does too.

Forge’s cell rings, and he puts it on speaker to answer.

“Go,” he says, which tells me it’s Ranger Stephen. We called him on the way here and I can hardly remember the conversation, but he did say he would call us back.

“I have Rangers on the way to the bakery. I scanned the image you sent me and he’s coming up in the system as Gavin Xavier.”

“We already knew that,” I snap.

We’re the one who sent him the picture, right after Trina sent it to us.

We assumed that’s who it was, since we saw his name all over that file and Raewyn heard it.